Groundwork

Groundwork 195x300

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)

Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)

 

Included poems:

The Hollow
Blue Ridge
Fear
Plankroad
Huckleberry Bald
Appalachian Trail
Mountain Bride
The Flying Snake
Lost Flower
Real and Ethereal
Galacker: The Galax Gatherer
Sport
Otis
Snowlight
Death Crown
Canning Time
Burnoff
When the Ambulance Came
Slop Bucket
Walnutry
Baptism of Fire
Bean Money
Huckleberries
Reuben's Cabin
Upstairs at the Country Store
Wallowing
Bricking the Church
Tear Bottle
Burning the Hornet's Nest
Milksick Pen
Smokehouse Dirt
Blackberries
Pigeon Loft
Mountain Page
Zircon Pit
Secret Pleasures
Den Tree
Devil's Courthouse
Trash
Praying Through

 

Related media:

Mountain Bride (poem)

 

Praise for Robert Morgan:

At their finest, his stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs.

— The New York Times Book Review
. . .

Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

— BookPage
. . .

Morgan has contributed so much to the health of southern poetry over the last thirty-five years that the southerness of his work is axiomatic... [His] reputation is made, in no small part, on the strength of his ear, with which he has produced some of the most sonorous poems in the language.

— North Carolina Literary Review
. . .

 

Return to Poetry